Piracy?

[Carl the Llama]

This is not necessarily true. If one downloads something that one would not have purchased, there is simply no loss; the quantity of money received by the composer/performer/record company does not change.

but why should someone download somthing if they would not buy it: because they are unwilling to fork out the cash for it.

Have you ever seen a guy who hates chick flicks buy Sence and Sencibility for himself?

If, however, one downloads something, likes it, and purchases a copy for the sake of supporting the author (or purchases a copy of some later work knowing, from piratical experience, that the artists produces good music), then more money can be made.

There are other ways to find out if you dont like somthing before commiting to buying said item: read about it, ask about it on a forum watch clips of it/listen to the radio and to be perfectly frank, id be completely shocked if even 0.1% people who file share do actully go out and buy the thing they downloaded.

It's illegal because companies have a skewed conception of income and are money-hungry. We don't, for instance, see book publishers freaking out because it's legal to copy their works on the photocopiers that essentially every library has.

So you make an awesome invention patent it and the some random guy comes along, takes your invention find out how it works and then bam releases his own version, and hands it out for free that it is right? think of all the hard work that you put in that just went down the drain.

Now this is just plain wrong, Fileshareing is piracy for the simple fact that the person didnt buy the file, think about what would happen if more and more people shared, eventually nothing would be sold, therefore the product would stop getting made fileshareing will eventually lead to recession, jobs lost ect... its an endless spiral of recession, more people share less people pay prices raise so the product can make some profit, less people buy as item's become to expencive... dont you see this will happen the more people fileshare.

By the same logic: teaching is plain wrong for the simple fact that, if everyone became a teacher, stores would shut down, farmers wouldn't farm and we'd all die of starvation -- albeit in a fairly educated manner. We simply cannot state that something is wrong due to problems caused by a majority of people partaking of that action.

Is there a law against teaching?

The audio recording of a book is not the same thing as the book. And even if she owned the audio version, downloading it is still illegal.

But who cares?

Me.